Dive Brief:
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Federal CIO Tony Scott is urging cloud vendors to come up with solutions that can operate on the government scale.
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To improve security, federal agencies need to move away from old-fashioned business models, Scott said.
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Scott envisions a basic framework for cloud-based government services applications that is vendor agnostic and applicable to public, private and hybrid systems.
Dive Insight:
Recent hacks of the legacy systems at the Office of Personnel Management make it clear that the federal government needs to move away from antiquated legacy systems that do not include integrated security measures common to modern IT systems. However, most current federal cloud transition efforts are fragmented and uncoordinated. Scott is urging IT vendors to come up with new solutions. The push may help motivate cloud vendors to come up with innovative ideas for helping federal agencies – as well as large private companies – make a coordinated move to the cloud.
